Cortez actually did a good job

[MANGLER]

Cortez was too active, so hatton's backers will always blame him for the loss but Joe wasn't the deciding factor in the fight. PBF was the better man and that's all that mattered in the end.

[beecherhq]

I always thought mayweather was the better man anyways but looking at those videos (which i know are one sided) **** me, they weren't skills. Just dirty tactics.

[JcourT]

Cortez may have had a lackluster performance, but the fact of the matter is it didnt cost hatton the fight, he was in over his head fighting a much bigger and technically sound Floyd Mayweather

[ROSS CALIFORNIA]

How could it be the refs fault that Hatton got knocked out? It's absolutely ridiculous to think that. I think he did show a little favoritism toward Floyd, but that is debatable and not clearly obvious. Cortez has been used as a scape goat by Hattons fans, and that's just not right. Hatton lost fair and square. My dad hates Floyd because he talks so much ****, but even he acknowledged he was surprised Floyd won that type of fight. After the fight he said Floyd was a real champion, and he hates the guy and lost $300. lol

[damian5000]

I hope Mayweather fights Hatton again soon. I highly doubt it happens though. If it does, I'll be rich.

[Bhopreign]

Huge Floyd fan here, but it was clear Floyd got to Cortez early, in that sense I mean probably his pockets. If you heard the instruction in the dressing room when Ricky's people asked Cortez things it was funny how Cortez answered, not going into detail but basically saying he would be fair, he said things totally different to Floyd's people. Cortez was always looking to break them up and many times broke them up when he saw Hatton was trying to get the better of Floyd, as the fight went on and he saw Floyd could take care of himself he let them fight more.

[Gareth Ivanovic]

Cortez may have had a lackluster performance, but the fact of the matter is it didnt cost hatton the fight, he was in over his head fighting a much bigger and technically sound Floyd Mayweather

I agree in the end it didn't really matter. Was Cortez probably a little to involved yes, but it didn't chance the outcome. I wonder if in Ricky's next fight against Laczano if he'll be holding like a mutha****er again.

[thegreatone1]

I think with a fair ref it would be a closer fight, id still pick Floyd thats a given but it wont be the mismatch the first one turned out to be.

Remember it was close after 6rds until Cortez pulled a Nady.

[Scott9945]

Cortez did far from a good job. he was biased allowing mayweather to elbow and hold more than ricky. with that being said, mayweather would have gotten him regardless and it wont change the outcome of the rematch either. mayweather already has his number.

I agree with all of that. This is starting to take the Chavez-Taylor I type of controversy, and it really doesn't deserve it. But Cortez did suck that night.

[warp1432]

Well I think he was too agressive in rounds 2 and 3, but the threadstarter makes some good points. Both were doing their fair share of tactics and Cortez would let Hatton bully Mayweather to the ropes and Cortez would let Mayweather use his elbow.

He would only break them up with Hatton or Mayweather weren't trying to create shots. I just think he was ****** to slap the fighters elbows (I hate it when a ref does this) and call timeout to warn them and he was in the way sometimes.

Also I think the elbow from Mayweather is prefectly fair if Hatton is allowed to hit and hold. Honestly I think it's a little hyprocritical for people to say "he wouldn't let Hatton do his gameplan", but then Mayweather wouldn't be allowed to do his. I mean Mayweather was allowed too and so was Hatton (to an extent, I think he when warning Hatton he shouldn't have gotten in their faces).

So he did a meh job. It wasn't the best, but it wouldn't change the outcome and I think Cortez didn't do the massacare as people make it out to be.